The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-27
SPEAKER OARLISLE'S TROUBLES
Nor YET OVER.
Why John Sherman Is Not StrOEg
EaOagh for n Presidential
Canvass.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
POSSIBLE.
Important Parliamentary Question
Touching the Appointment OF In
teistate Commissioners.

lOuCutuk tbb appointment W -"
tei state Commissioners.
BUREAg oV THE MEMPHIS APPEAL
No. 1905 Y STREET, WARRINGTON,
D. O., February 26-In five days the
Forty.ninth Congress will have be-
come a thing Of The past. Although
many wholesome reforms have been
inAugurated by it, its record will not
be- one " h CHI can be looked back to
with an unmitiEaled degree OF salts
faction by the Democrats to whom
was entrusted the government OF the
sountry two yesrJ ego, with q msjor-
ity in the lower house amp'ysuf1icent
to carry ont the reforms expected OF
them had everything worked har-
moniously. The Democrats promised
TO relieve taxation. 1h@y have not
done It, The Democrats promised 10
reform the ,arifi 80 as to relieve the
Treasury OF its redundancy. They
have not done II. The Democrats
promised to do number OF things
which would have redounded to their
credit, and IL must sonowlully BIS con-
iessed that they have not be on asprompt
in the execution Of thei, promises as
they were b make them. There have
been many excuses made to show why
they could not do all that WAS expected
OF them, but tho country, which has
seen a. 10 place the relns Of govern
ment 10 D.m cratic hands for another
two years, looks for a better record
from the Fiitieth Congress than the
Forty-ninth has left. And il must not
be forgotten that the Presidency will
depend on that record. Therefore, ye
OouRresemen, unless you wish to see
the country once more plunged under
Republican misrule, amend your ways,
grid up your loinS and let your watch
words be Progress and Democracyl
There is ny probability that any
thing further viii be done in the few
remaining days OF this Congress than
the pas, age of the appropriation bills
still uuconsiderld, and OF a few phi.
vate bills against which there is no
opposition, Limiting the work even
TO these measures, Congress has plenty
OF business on hand to occupy is
time. The condition Of the appropri-
alton bills is as follows: The legs-
latiye Ia pending in the Houee; the
sundry civil is stu in conference; the
deficiency and Notifications have b on
passed; the naval bill is in the House
the army bill has become law; The
military academy passed the Senate
with amendments; the postofiice |!
in conference; the river ant
haIbor bill is before the
House with Senate amendments
which make an entirely new bill of it
the pension bill lie in conference; thu
agricultural is in the Sena Q; the diple
matte has passed the Senate; tn,
District OF Columbia ia in the Hous
with Senate amendment, and the In
dian bill ia In House committee will
Senate amendments. 1t will thus b.
ssen that there are eleven appropria
tion bills which must be passed In tn
next asven days and that the chance
OF any other measure of importanc
being passed are very slim indeed
The House and Senate conlerees Of
the 10, I 6oStion bill have arrange,
their d fferenCes and agreed upon
report that Will carry appropriate n
that range between the line OF what !
called economic expenditures HON
Democratic standpoint and what praC
teal etatesmsnship would recogniE
ss nects AIRY 10 properly carry forwar
the work Indispensable TO adCqua,
coast end harbor defenses.
Ten million dollsrs, 1t would be sup
posed, would purchase large amour
OF ordnance, but statement has bee
prepared from which the showing
not 80 very great. To obtain &c
ior2i0gs for 100 eight inch, sixty to-
inch aud thirteen twelve inch gun
complee would cost alone S6,O00,O0l
Then for q gun factory, S550,0,0; 70
protection snd repairs Of fortitication
and sea Nalls, $4,000; for 100 twelv
inch moItars, steel hooped cast iroI
$l0O0r each 81 100000; for torped leI
etc, 100000, for sixty steel feel
guns for ten batteries ( six guns eact
S250000; for service and experiments
sea coast carriages and testing SAM
100000; for tha completion OF gun
now 10 course OF fabrication and tes
ing same, 100000; for procuremen
OF powds rs, Elk projeCtiles, fuses, i'm
elements, etc, Tor service an
test OF Runa AID compensation {
Craughtemen on gun construct o
while employed in Ordnance Bureau
sSOO,0c0 All the guns which NJ
b.. ge's bill would obtain are seventy
two, viz: Forty S.rch, tWenty.seve
lOiuch and Ave l2,il eh Runs, whic
even the copierees considered absurd
The Committee TN Appropriation
OF the Seuae restored the diplomat
and C1ns uar sppiopr a ions bill I
absut the condition II was in when
WAS rep " ed to the Hou Q by Mr., Bel
mont. Mr.. b ysrd hes sdVieed th
committee that ne taVois the propos